Nina and Mario first met in 1999. It was a chance meeting in Central Park, the kind of stuff

that romance movies written by Nora Ephron were made of. In fact, it was a series of chance meetings.

Nina used to walk across the park to work at her first job, and Mario worked in the park as

a gardener.

Eventually they started to say hello every day,

and that led to exchanging phone numbers on a slip of paper,

landline numbers because this was 1999.

When the two of them finally got together, they fell hard.

And their love was so passionate that strangers on the street

commented on it when they saw them kissing in public.

But they were both young and they didn't know what they wanted out of the world or who they

wanted to be and they broke up. They both lived their own lives. And nearly 20 years later, after a pandemic changed how we all see the world, they found their way back to each other. But let's start at the beginning. The very beginning.

This is Nina.

I'm Marion and we're here to tell you about the story of the first time we met.

You start, we start with that.

Okay.

Um, I don't actually remember the first time we actually met but I remember the first time I actually saw

Anita she was floating across the park from the west side to the east side.

Central Park.

The Central Park.

The essential park.

I forget there's always more than one park.

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